• Zedstrian
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    301 year ago

    The people using Reddit for its data have the easiest time scraping it for its data since they don’t need API access to post, comment, or moderate; it’s unfortunate that Reddit management continues to degrade the experience of the average user just to make it slightly harder for that scraping to occur.

    • @Socsa@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Exactly. A large part of the issue here is that reddit tried to sell astroturfing as a service, but everyone quickly realized you can just astroturf reddit for free.

      The whole “Thanos snap” thing was reddit launching that service, I am convinced.